The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-09-09
THE NORTHWEST.
NEBRASKA.

Saturday ct franklin, which was largely n. !
tended and addressed by Ex.Congressmau
Bash and other distinguished speakers.
The Lincoln journal lie authority for the
statement that st. Peter nov recognizes the
Nebraskans rs they come up to the pearlv
gates by a purple ring around their necks.
Deacon Crandall, of Scotia, while sitting
astride q wire fence during q thunder storm.
had the base Of his spinal column scorched
by electricity, but was not otherwise badly in.
Jared.
Drs. Gerth and Abbey, OF the state Nv.
stock commission, killed Saturday three
horees at Stella that were affected with CLAN.
ders. This is the first case reported In the
country.
John Brown, Of Lincoln, Who couldn't
Z locate his new boarding house after dark, got
Into the wrong yard, and as he was approach.
Ing the front door was shot by the owner. who
took him to be q burglar.
A severe storm passed over Pawnec CITY.
Monday. Windows were badly damaged,
corn was laid to tho ground and apples ard
peaches blown from the trees. In one or.
chard 5000 buehels were blown to the
ground.
Margaret Ward. q sixteen year old girl of
Greeley county, a n~vmlhomaniac, has been
sent to tie reform school at Kearney in hopes
OF rescutng her from the life of shame ON
which she had started with the most rockies.
abandon.
A disasti Gus railroad wreck occurred near
Johnston on the Fremont, Elkhorn aud Mis-.
souri, Valley railroad ON Wednesday. A fire
man was killed and several others badly ir.
ured. The damage to cars and engines was
also great.
A travelling man giving the name of g. w.
Adams, and claiming to represent Emerich.
Newhousc 4 Co., of Kansas City, visited
Nebraska City, took several large orders for
goods, and worked the confidence racket on
several merchants, getting them to indors,
checks for several amounts. Word has ius,
been received from the Kansas City firm say
ing he Is a fraud. Bickford & Co, who wer.
among the 1ecccd to a considerable amount
have offered a reward for his arrest.
DAKOTA.
An eastern capitalist offers TO build 3
$4,000 building in Sioux Falls IL the boart
OF trade will secure a rental of II for ia,
years at ten per cent. of the cost.
The Madison aud Bristol line of the Gil
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul Is now com.
pleted, and the construction outfits have left
Lake Preston for other fields of operation.
Deadwood is ratding tho Chinese houses OF
prostitution and opium dens Of that CITY,
Eight females and as many men were sent to
the calaboose. A prominent Chinese mcr.
Giant retained Col. Parker to defend then,
Fred Carruth, of the Dakota Bell, has been
employed by the New York Tribune as fits
Dakota correspondent. 1t IL understood tina,
tie publication of the Bell will be discon.
tinued.
A large citizens meeting in connection
with the board Of trade was held at Water
town, Friday, to consider the proposition o,
the Duluth and Denver company to locate
machine shops and division headquarters a,
Watertown. A plan will he formulated T.,
raising a n occurring depot and yarf
grounds and right of a
Near Atnsworth, Saturday, q wild train
loaded with cattle ran into u hand csr loaded
with old iron, and seven cars were wreukc ,
The train was running twenty miles ar hou
on a down grade, and II was impossible t,
stop before striking the obstruction. The en-
glneer told his fireman to jump, which he did
but ON the wrong side, as the engine turnc,
over ana he was pinned to the ground and in
slahtiy Killed, the tender and two cars OF ca,
tie being piled above him. A number of ca.
tie we're killed aud four loa ads turned loose O.
the prairie.
Threshing at Humboldt shows the wl,ro
crop to be an average, and oats a little MOI
than an average.
Damon Mott, a Black Hawk county stu.
raiser, shipped $500 worth of stool, 10 On
cago last week.
Can forty COWS be successfully kept ON n
etght-acrc farm, is u proposition some We.
ster county farmers are trying to demo,
strate.
inc board OF education at Dubuque place
the salaries of primary teachers this year I'll
same Us that of principals in the lower d,
partments.
AT the Ottumwa fair grounds on T,esds
10. head Of horses we're buried to death. Tt
Ere was started by spark from a railroad e,
CINE. The loss is probably 100000.
Andrew Harris, q resident OF peiawu.
county for over thirty years, vas found des
In his garden, where he had gone to do sou
hoeing. He was sixty years of age and ht.Al
respected.
X. L. Wood, of Griuncll, fell from the VT,
dow of a loom lin the third story cfthe Dow,
Ing house, and in falling struck the w,ud,,
sll OF the second story, breakipglthe glas,
dc Tell to the ground, however, but was nc
seriously injured.
In digging q sewer at Council Bluffs a po,
iton caved in, completely burying one of tn
work!ncn up to the neck and nearly ehuttfn
on respiration. He was rescued, howcyc,
and little Injury sustained.
During a storm Saturday evening fw
children OF =. Thorson were stricken dow,
BY lightning in Seneca township, near Algona
Ihey were sitting together on hay rake
Their bodies were fairly crushed to the eartf
a vote forpresident was taken on the Abb
branch OF the Q going to Des Moines Tues
day which resulted In giving Blaine 80; All
SOD, 10; Lincoln, s; Sherman, 9; Clcyelap
had IL; Carlisle, Z, and George William Gu,
It's. 1.
WoopsTocK, Va, Aug. sl.-The entire cor
troll OF the liquor rsftlc at the Shenandoah
county agricultural fair, to be held mex
month, was sold yesterday to Senator Riddle
berger for s10D cash. He then obligated hin
self to the society to sell no intoxicatip,
liquors and close the house heretofore used .
a bar.room.